Czech Painter and sculptor, uses computers to assist his work.
His artistic development led to the necessity of using a computer.
Zdeněk Sýkora
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| last name: | Sýkora |
| first name: | Zdeněk |
| also known as: | Sykora |
| birthday: | February 3, 1920 |
| birth-place: | Louny (Czech Republic) |
Summary
Biography
| 1945-1947 | Studies Creative Education and Descriptive Geometry at the Karls University at Prague |
| 1940 | Starts to do paintings |
| 1946-1949 | Cubistic Paintings |
| 1952 | First Soloexhibition |
| 1960 | Starts to do concrete art |
| 1964 | Starts to experiment with computers/painting in co-operation with Jaroslav Blazek |
| 1966-1980 | Professor for Painting at the Karls University at Prague |
| 1972 | Starts to experiment with computer generated line drawings |
| 2005 | Receives Herbert Boeckl Preis für Internationale Malerei |
Works
Exhibitions
References
- Franke, Herbert W. 1971. Computergraphik Computerkunst. Munich:Bruckmann
- Klütsch, Christoph 2005. The Summer 1968 in London and Zagreb: Starting or End Point for Computer Art?. In: Creativity & Cognition 05 Proceedings. [unknown address]:ACM press
- Lehmann, Ulrike 2004. Als das Quadrat noch ein Quadrat war. Anmerkungen zum Werk von Vera Molnar und zur Ausstellung. In: Vera Molnar: Als das Quadrat noch ein Quadrat war … . Eine Retrospektive zum 80. Geburtstag. Bielefeld:Kerber Verlag
- Rosen, Margit, ed. 2011. A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973. Karlsruhe (Germany) & Cambridge, MA (USA):ZKM & MIT Press
Illustrations
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